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Kerning, the Hard Way
by David Jones Here is a font i am working on; i hope you like it. The letterforms are reversed out against a vertically striped background.
The graphic effect is inspired-by/stolen-from Schaefer Versalien, but the letterforms are modified from my found stencil font Arugula. In most, normal, fonts kerning is done with position rules (GPOS lookups); that doesn’t work here, because if we reposition T to be slightly further left, we get something like this disaster: And right now is has a very basic alphabet, just A to Z; i will draw some more letters and a few more decorative items, but i plan for it to have a fairly small repertoire, partly because the kerning and the vertical stripe design add to the constraints.
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